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  Review by 👽hayley👽 ★½ 75

  woody allen attempts to make a 42 year old having a relationship with a 17 year old girl romantic and acceptable lmao nice try ya creep

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  Review by maria ★★ 39

  no amount of beautiful b&w cinematography can save this self indulgent, pretentious and perverted dogshit

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  Review by Mike D'Angelo ★★★★★ 20

  100/100

  [originally written on my blog]

  I don't understand how you make a film that looks like this and then go on to make 32 subsequent films (and counting) that look nothing like this. But then, neither do I understand how you achieve the perfect synthesis of your many gifts and somehow conclude that you totally whiffed, to the point where you beg the studio to destroy the negative. Each of the film's tricky balancing acts—between visual beauty and verbal dexterity, between wit and pathos, between the specific and the universal—couldn't be more sublimely realized; like most every masterpiece, it's a tiny, insular story that nonetheless embodies human folly at its most ubiquitous and grandiose. That Woody chooses to make…

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  Review by Kall S ★★★ 2

  As if any of those women would actually put up with Woody Allen's annoying face for five minutes.

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  Review by megan ★★½

  can you believe that woody allen actually directed and starred in his own biopic???

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  Review by Aaron ★★★★★ 10

  “Chapter One. He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat—oh, I love this. New York was his town, and it always would be.”

  Is life fundamentally sweet or sour? Depends on your point of view, I suppose. You get a new job, make a new friend, fall in love—life is honeyed and worth living. You lose that job, have a falling out with that friend, fall out of love—life is curdled and should be thrown out. The funny thing is, those circumstances don’t parcel themselves out discretely. They tend to coexist. You get a promotion but have a fight with your spouse about the…

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  Review by Neil Bahadur ★½ 3

  You've got to be kidding me

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  Review by DIREKTIONZ ★★★★ 5

  Woody Allen’s Manhattan is a fascinating study of the pretentious-self Woody Allen, an unintended bio-pic about himself, which make his comments about how Manhattan being his least favorite film of his filmography perfect sense. How some say, don’t trust the comments of the artist about his own work. It’s the case mostly in the music industry, but this is a fascinating example in the film-world. In fact, Woody Allen even asked United Artists not to release his film after he finished it. Woody Allen’s Manhattan might be one of the greatest films about New York ever made, while being the perfect depiction of Woody Allen’s self and his own comments won’t change that.

  Whether it’s his nervous realization that the…

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  Review by C4rlo5 ★★★½

  “You rely too much on your brain, the brain is the most overrated organ, I think.”
  
  This is one of the most popular  movies directed by Woody Allen.

  Starring Woody Allen, here we have a story about a narcissistic man that has an unstructured life since his ex wife broke up with him and then he started meeting a 17 years old girl.

  It’s an entertaining movie that is able to get the viewer glued to the screen, but at the same time I felt like Isaac (Woody Allen) was a little bit annoying, all his conversations were irritating for me, anyway in spite of this, I liked the movie.

  Another thing is the fact that the girl was 17…

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  Review by Wood ★★★★

  I think I enjoy looking at this film more than any of the actual content, but that's okay because it's a beautiful film about awful people.

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  Review by Ryan Daniel ★★★★½ 7

  “I could tell by your voice over the phone. Very authoritative, like the Pope or the computer in 2001.”

  I am pretty amazed at the visuals in this film. It still has the incredibly witty, genuine writing that I was expecting, but I wasn’t expecting it to be so beautiful. I adore the way this film is shot, and the music is perfect for the atmosphere that the camera creates.

  Now as much as I love the writing, the actual story hasn’t aged well. I stand by separating an artist from their art, but seeing Woody Allen date a 17 year old is a little too on the nose. Reminds me of watching Kevin Spacey in American Beauty; it’s still great, but I can see why there’s some eyebrows being raised.

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  Review by 𝐏𝐚𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐆𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐧 🇮🇹 ★★★★★ 6

  Manhattan is one of the highest peaks of Woody Allen's long career. His New York is a desirable, dreamy and seductive city, portrayed in the black and white of the sophisticated comedies and musicals of the 1940s, and wrapped in the great music of George Gershwin. This is the setting - magical and melancholy at the same time - within which the director moves his pawns: Isaac, a disillusioned and insecure middle-aged television screenwriter, Tracy, his teenage girlfriend, Jill, his ex-wife turned lesbian who lives with a friend, Yale, his best friend who cheats on his wife, and finally Mary, Yale's girlfriend (who is the wonderful Diane Keaton), rich in all the snobberies of the intellectual people. They are all…